402 "The Open Boat" by Stephen Crane
The History of Literature
00:00
The Cook's Great White and Corked Back Bulked Out of the Water
The correspondent paddled leisurely in the sea, sometimes whirling down an incline as if he were on a hand sled. The shore was set before him like a bit of scenery on a stage and he understood with his eyes each detail of it. A large wave caught him and flung him completely over the boat and far beyond it. But later, a wave perhaps whirled him out of this small, deadly current, for he found suddenly that he could again make progress toward the shore. An overturned boat in the surf is not a plaything to a swimming man. It struck him even then as an event in gymnastics and a true miracle of the sea. Presently, he saw
Transcript
Play full episode
